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Dash and panache made Conrad Hilton innkeeper to the world
...with the shrewdly audacious small-town boy who put together the world's foremost chain of luxury hotels and became a multiple millionaire and one of the most colorful American businessmen? From New York to Istanbul and from Las Vegas to Addis Ababa, the name of Conrad Nicholson Hilton was synonymous with hotel, as in "I'm staying at the Hilton...
When he died of pneumonia last week at a wizened 91, his perennially profitable Hilton Hotels Corp. owned, managed or franchised 185 hostelries in the U.S. with revenues of $372 million in 1977. (The overseas subsidiary, Hilton International, was sold to Trans World Airlines in 1967.) Though Hilton's son Barren, 51, took over as chief executive more than a decade ago, Papa kept the title of chairman and continued to turn up daily at his Beverly Hills office to answer fan mail and assist charities. Besides Barron, another son, Eric, and 14 grandchildren, Hilton is survived...
...Mills 2 0-1 4; Olah o 1-3 1; Schmitt 3 0-0 6; Lewis 4 4-4 12; Melville 0 1-2 1; Blatt 2 0-3 4; Roma 5 2-2 12; Christel 6 1-2 13; Hilton 0 0-0 0; Young 1 0-0 2; TOTALS...
...represented once Muhammed Ali...I met him over at a hotel in New York here, the Hilton. And he knocked on the door and said, "Quick, open up, close it." I opened the door, and just as I closed it, there were about five gals chasing him down the hallway, black and white, and he says "They'll tear me to pieces." He came in and we talked for about two hours. He's very intelligent, and not at all flamboyant...I had it worked out that they were going to dismiss [the draft evasion charges] if he would...